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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Looking ahead at 2021, with vaccines being rolled out (slowly) in the developed world, it feels like we have a grip on what the year ahead might look like – the new normal. billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 In Newzoo’s l atest report , analysts predicted that in 2021, 2.8

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. He travelled tirelessly to clients, data partners and to the UK to make sure the global organization was synchronized.

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Why We Invested in Flyp: Unlocking Recommerce Supply

View from Seed

Flyp’s workflow automation capabilities and AI-driven inventory matching system empower these entrepreneurs to develop and scale their at-home reseller businesses. The company has recruited a network of tens of thousands of small online resellers, frequently individual stay-at-home entrepreneurs, onto its platform.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Evangelos Simoudis zJoining me in from the studio at Stanford University were: Evangelos Simoudis , venture investor and senior advisor to global corporations. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. Filed under: Customer Development. Ashok Srivastava.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The global macro conditions could weigh heavily on the IPO market for awhile. Or growth and sound economic policies in developed countries could return quickly. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. The second tier of companies probably have to wait whether they like it or not. Previous Entries.

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$43.2 Million That Can Help You

Growthink Blog

Get Satisfaction Inc. ( [link] ) raised $6 million led by Azure Capital Partners. Get Satisfaction has developed a private label social network platform for businesses to use to communicate with their customers, and to help customers communicate with each other. million led by Greycroft Partners and BV Capital.

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